addresses from St. John and county of York,
74-75; his unconstitutional attitude, 75, 76. =Bib.=: _Dict. Nat.
Biog._; Dent, _Can. Por._ and _Last Forty Years_; Kaye, _Life and
Correspondence of Lord Metcalfe_; Ryerson, _Story of my Life_; Pope,
_Memoirs of Sir John A. Macdonald_.

=Methodist Church in Canada.= Can be traced back to 1772, when a party
of Yorkshire Methodists settled in Nova Scotia. The first provincial
Methodist Conference was held at Halifax in 1786. In 1814 the British
Conference appointed missionaries to Quebec and Montreal; and in 1807
the first Methodist Conference was held at Elizabethtown (Brockville).
In 1828 the Canada Conference became independent of the Methodist
Episcopal Church of the United States; and in 1833 the Canada Methodist
Episcopal Church united with the British Wesleyans. In 1874 the Wesleyan
Methodist Conference of Canada, the Canadian Wesleyan New Connexion
Conference, and the Wesleyan Conference of Eastern British America
became one as the Methodist Church of Canada. The first session of the
General Conference was held the same year. In 1883 the Primitive
Methodist Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church also became part of
the Methodist Church in Canada. =Index=: =R= History of church in
Canada, 38; without civil rights, 40; independent Canadian church
established, 81; English Methodism in Canada, 87; Wesleyan missionaries,
89; Canadian bodies united, 287-288. =S= Bishop Mountain's low opinion
of Methodist preachers in Upper Canada, 159; their earnest labours,
162-164. =Bib.=: Sanderson, _The First Century of Methodism in Canada_;
Ryerson, _Canadian Methodism_; Carman, _Historical Sketch of Canadian
Methodism_ in _Canada: An Ency._, vol. 2.

=Methye Portage.= Also known as Portage La Loche. Named after the methye
or loche (_Lota maculosa_), which has always been abundant in
neighbouring waters. This portage was an important point in the palmy
days of the fur trade. It leads from the Churchill to the Clearwater,
and so to the Athabaska and the immense systems of northern and western
waterways that lie beyond. It was noted for its beautiful scenery, which
has been described or mentioned by Mackenzie, Franklin, Back, and other
northern travellers. It was first crossed by Peter Pond in 1778. The
route has now been abandoned for some years, supplies for the northern
posts of the Hudson's Bay Company being transported overland from
Edmonton to Athabaska Landing, and thence down